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An interesting find by a Scottish cousin prompts me to ask whether anyone knows what a “hosiery viewer” actually did to earn his crust. It conjures up amusing images, but I have no doubt it was a serious occupation. We found our “hosiery viewer” Thomas Winning born about 1874 in the 1911 census in Wandsworth, London.

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Lynda’s Genealogy

Starting with the Crackett, Webb, Turner and Henderson families of Amble and Radcliffe in Northumberland and finding more names in my pedigree as I dig further back. Where did all these fascinating people come from and how did they make little me?